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Contents 1. Red Sky at Morning. America and the Crisis of the Global Environment……………………………………………… 3 2. Green Giants? Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union…………………………… 8 3. Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States……………………………………………… 8 4. Natur und Macht. Eine Weltgeschichte der Umwelt……………… 14 5. Mensch – Natur – Wissen. Grundlagen der Umweltbildung……… 19 6. Our Common Journey. A Transition Toward Sustainability……… 23 7. Institutionelle Reformen für eine Politik der Nachhaltigkeit………………………………………………… 27 8. Turning Point. An End to the Growth Paradigm………………… 30 9. Limits to Growth – The 30-Year Update………………………… 33
Udo E. Simonis 3 Red Sky at Morning. America and the Crisis of the Global Environment By James Gustave Speth New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, XV + 275 pp. ISBN 0-300-10232-1. “Red sky at night, sailors delight; red sky at morning, sailors take warning” – is a saying amongst sailors often borne out by experience. Gus Speth, the grand old man of American environmentalism, has written a shake-up book, a real danger signal. Actually, he is not that old, but old enough to get angry again. And angry Speth is about the failures to protect the global ecology, angry about the incompetence of the international community to prevent biological impoverishment – sad about the US administration whose priorities have strayed badly off the path. A little angry also on himself: ”My generation is a generation, I fear, of great talkers, overly fond of conferences. On action, however, we have fallen far short” (p. 8). In recent years, quite a few books and reports have been published on the state of the global environment, and on global environmental governance. None, I think, is like Speth’s book that combines qualities that seldom go together: extensive empirical evidence, razor-sharp analysis, and personal engagement, compassion even. The central hypothesis of the book is straightforward: It is about challeng- ing those who may believe that the international negotiations, treaties and other agreements of the past decades have prepared us to deal with global environmental threats; they haven’t: “The current system of international
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